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PROCYON MAYNARDI Bangs 

 Bahama Raccoon 

 Proci/on maynardi Bangs, Biol. Soc. Washington Proc. 12: 92, Apr. 30, 1898. 



Tyjpe locality. — New Providence Island, Bahamas. 



Type. — No. 7750, male young, skin and skull, Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology (collection of E. A. and O. Bangs) ; collected l)y 

 Herbert L. Claridge, August 1897. 



Distribution. — Known only from New Providence Island, Bahamas. 

 Tropical Zone. 



General characters. — A small, medium dark-colored species with a 

 slender, delicate skull, narrow palatal shelf, and light dentition. 

 Similar in general to P. I. incautus of the extreme southern Florichi 

 keys, but color darker, and cranial characters, especially the small 

 teeth, distinctive. Somewhat similar in size to P. minor of Guade- 

 loupe Island, Lesser Antilles, but apparently somewhat paler in color 

 and skull differing notably in the narrowness of the palatal shelf. 



Color. — Upper parts in general grayish, becoming ochraceoiis bufly 

 on nape and over shoulders, moderately overlaid with black, thinning 

 out along sides; top of head a grizzled mi.xture of gray and black; black 

 mask interrupted between eyes, a dusky median patch extending to 

 forehead somewhat isolated by lighter lateral lines, as in P. I. lotor; 

 upper surface of muzzle ochraceous buffy; su])raorbital lines, sides of 

 muzzle, lips, ancl chin white; ears grayish, with l)lack patches at 

 posterior base; under parts thinly overlaid with grayish; limbs similar 

 to under parts, the hind legs blackish near ankles; tail with five or six 

 black rings and a black tip, alternating with ochraceous buffy rings. 



Cranial characters. — Skull very similar in outline and general propor- 

 tions to that of P. I. incantus, but palatal shelf narrower, the sides 

 (Hstinctly concave (sides more nearly parallel in incautus); nasals 

 narrower posteriorly; auditory bullae slightly larger, more inflated; 

 posterior upper premolar and carnassial slightly smaller. Similar in 

 size to that of P. minor, but brain case narrower, less flattened above; 

 palatal shelf decidedly narrower, the sides more concave; nasals nar- 

 rower between anterior processes of frontals; auditory bullae slightly 

 larger; dentition similar, but molariform teeth broader. 



Measurements. — Adult Male topotype: Total length, 713 mm.; tail vertebrae, 

 240; hind foot (dry skin), 100. Skull: An adult male and an adult female (topo- 

 types), respectively: Greatest length, 105.9, 103.5; condylobasal length, 101.7, 

 101; zygomatic breadth, 79.3, 64.6; interorbital breadth, 21.9, 22.1; least width of 

 palatal shelf, 12.2, 13.3; maxillary tooth row (alveoli), 38.7, 38.9; upper carnassial, 

 crown length, 7.6, 7.6, crown width, 8.4, 8.5. 



Remarks. — The Bahama form is closely related to the raccoons of the 

 Florida Keys as shown in the skull by agreement in form and general 

 proportions, especially the height of the frontal region, with slight 



